Russell Napier

Russell Napier

Russell Napier was born in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a lawyer, Napier was active as an actor on the stage as early as 1936; on the screen, from 1947 to 1974, playing both comedic and dramatic roles in both cinema and television. Notably, he starred in a liveBBC television production of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine in 1949; still photographs of this production exist, but no actual footage.

  • Title: Russell Napier
  • Popularity: 2.217
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1910-11-28
  • Place of Birth: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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  • Also Known As: Russell Gordon Napier
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Russell Napier Movies

  • 1958
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    Tread Softly Stranger

    Tread Softly Stranger

    7.5 1958 HD

    Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

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  • 1955
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    Little Red Monkey

    Little Red Monkey

    5.8 1955 HD

    Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the...

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  • 1955
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    The Blue Peter

    The Blue Peter

    6 1955 HD

    A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and...

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  • 1955
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    A Time to Kill

    A Time to Kill

    6.5 1955 HD

    A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper...

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  • 1968
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    Nobody Runs Forever

    Nobody Runs Forever

    6 1968 HD

    Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But...

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  • 1961
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    The Mark

    The Mark

    6.2 1961 HD

    A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

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  • 1960
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    The Angry Silence

    The Angry Silence

    7.1 1960 HD

    When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his...

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  • 1968
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    The Blood Beast Terror

    The Blood Beast Terror

    5.5 1968 HD

    A Scotland Yard Detective must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant blood-sucking moth that can take human form.

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  • 1962
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    H.M.S. Defiant

    H.M.S. Defiant

    6.5 1962 HD

    Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual...

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  • 1955
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    The Brain Machine

    The Brain Machine

    5.5 1955 HD

    A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.

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  • 1961
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    Francis of Assisi

    Francis of Assisi

    7.6 1961 HD

    In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts...

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  • 1954
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    The Stranger Came Home

    The Stranger Came Home

    5.5 1954 HD

    Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business...

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  • 1956
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    The Man in the Road

    The Man in the Road

    6.3 1956 HD

    A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.

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  • 1954
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    The Dark Stairway

    The Dark Stairway

    1 1954 HD

    A blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd, but finds himself accused of the murder

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  • 1952
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    Blind Man's Bluff

    Blind Man's Bluff

    1 1952 HD

    Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results...

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  • 1957
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    Robbery Under Arms

    Robbery Under Arms

    5.4 1957 HD

    During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous...

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  • 1958
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    Son of Robin Hood

    Son of Robin Hood

    4.4 1958 HD

    Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize...

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  • 1957
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    Deep Dig

    Deep Dig

    1 1957 HD

    Pit sinkers prepare the coal mines of tomorrow. An account of shaft sinking techniques.

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  • 1952
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    Death of an Angel

    Death of an Angel

    6 1952 HD

    The angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in the small British village where she lives thinks the...

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  • 1949
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    The Time Machine

    The Time Machine

    6 1949 HD

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  • 1953
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    Black Orchid

    Black Orchid

    4.9 1953 HD

    Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister,...

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  • 1957
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    The Shiralee

    The Shiralee

    5.1 1957 HD

    An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town...

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  • 1962
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    The Hole In The Ground

    The Hole In The Ground

    1 1962 HD

    Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included...

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  • 1956
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    The Narrowing Circle

    The Narrowing Circle

    5.5 1956 HD

    A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.

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  • 1968
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    Twisted Nerve

    Twisted Nerve

    6.8 1968 HD

    Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he...

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  • 1952
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    Stolen Face

    Stolen Face

    5.6 1952 HD

    A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict...

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  • 1956
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    The Last Man to Hang

    The Last Man to Hang

    5.2 1956 HD

    A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.

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  • 1960
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    Sink the Bismarck!

    Sink the Bismarck!

    6.8 1960 HD

    The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World...

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  • 1958
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    A Night to Remember

    A Night to Remember

    7.6 1958 HD

    The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the...

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  • 1960
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    Hell Is a City

    Hell Is a City

    6.7 1960 HD

    Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain...

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  • 1964
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    Man in the Middle

    Man in the Middle

    6.4 1964 HD

    In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood....

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  • 1956
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    Guilty?

    Guilty?

    6 1956 HD

    Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching...

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  • 1957
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    The Case of The Smiling Widow

    The Case of The Smiling Widow

    1 1957 HD

    From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.

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  • 1954
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    Conflict of Wings

    Conflict of Wings

    6.3 1954 HD

    In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a...

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  • 1953
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    The Saint's Return

    The Saint's Return

    5.6 1953 HD

    A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.

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  • 1956
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    A Town Like Alice

    A Town Like Alice

    6.3 1956 HD

    In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no...

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  • 1953
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    36 Hours

    36 Hours

    5.893 1953 HD

    When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is...

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  • 1970
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    UFO

    UFO

    7.6 1970 HD

    A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

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  • 1956
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    Wire Service

    Wire Service

    1 1956 HD

    Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.

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  • 1967
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    Man in a Suitcase

    Man in a Suitcase

    7 1967 HD

    Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches...

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  • 1953
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    Scotland Yard

    Scotland Yard

    1 1953 HD

    Scotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated’s output of crime drama. Shot as cinema support features at...

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  • 1961
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    Stryker of the Yard

    Stryker of the Yard

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1971
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    Justice

    Justice

    6 1971 HD

    Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974....

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  • 1953
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    Scotland Yard

    Scotland Yard

    1 1953 HD

    Scotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated’s output of crime drama. Shot as cinema support features at...

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  • 1963
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    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    8.2 1963 HD

    The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for...

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